,” said her mother, who was also a study in what good clothing can do for age, “push that pin down in your tie—it's coming up.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Come, come, dear Athos,
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Multi enim faciunt multa temeritate quadam sine iudicio vel morbo in omnes vel repentino quodam quasi vento impetu animi incitati; quae beneficia aeque magna non sunt habenda atque ea, quae iudicio, considerate constanterque delata sunt.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

this mixture gives it very much the appearance of that kind of dunghill fowl which the hen-wives of our country call dom-manicker.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As commander in the reign of Valentinian III he defended the empire against the Huns, Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians, &c., completely defeating the Huns under Attila in a great battle at Châlons in 451.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

“Of course!” cried Danglars.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The sides were so steep that none of them could climb down, and for a moment it seemed that their journey must end.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

With grown-up persons laughter is excited by causes considerably different from those which suffice during childhood; but this remark hardly applies to smiling.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Donations are accepted in a number of other ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
— from My Monks of Vagabondia by Andress Floyd

Mr. Narkom stared at him in natural astonishment and Cleek proceeded to relate his adventures of the night, with the utmost detail, from the moment when the shot attracted his attention outside Cheyne Court, down to that when the ghastly discovery was made by him in the dusty ballroom.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

[Ibrahim SPAHIC]; Croat Christian Democratic Union or HKDU BiH
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I thought I saw enough in Grant to convince me that he was one on whom the country could depend.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Come, come, draw fool; draw ere I run thee through and dishonour sword by attacking thee, unarmed; draw, I say, fool!"
— from Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne